The essential plugin for WordPress beginners

One of the best kept secrets of WordPress, the content management system (or CMS, for the initiated), is its ability to have services and functionalities that until a few years ago were premium and specialized, basically a gift from Automattic (the company that develops WordPress.com) in the form of a plugin.

For example, although having a blog in WordPress is expensive to professionalize it (with a unique design and your own domain), it is much more convenient to have a self hosted WordPress, on a trusted web host. In a cheaper way and with a very low learning curve, installing WordPress (don't worry about uploading via FTP, a Softaculous script installs it in a minute with two clicks) on your own server brings many advantages at a lower price.

We have previously talked about how to choose the best theme or template, But now we will give you the best kept secret in the entire WordPress community: Jetpack, the free plugin that substantially improves your installation and your experience as an administrator.

First of all, Jetpack It gives you all the advantages and options that those who opened their account at WordPress.com have:

• Detailed analytics that serve a quick or deep look from the same dashboard
• Ability to enable blog comment login with social media accounts
• Moderate comments automatically with Akismet
• Easily include email subscription capabilities and simple social media widgets in every post.

In addition, it has several useful tools that until a few years ago were paid if you used another plugin:

• A content delivery network free for images when activating Photon: this will not stress your server, since images are loaded from WP.com, literally.
• An accurate monitoring of the website, since if for any reason it has problems, Jetpack will automatically notify you by mail so that you can get to work. If your server has a first class support service like in KIUBIX, a Mexican company with specialized technicians, you will be online immediately again.
• The ability to have infinite scroll in dozens of templates that do not have this capacity.
• Attractive and impressive galleries, in addition to slideshows, with free and customizable viewing tools.

Remember then that to activate Jetpack it is a basic from your WordPress self hosted, to get the most out of your server.